Environmental and economic assessment of the possibilities to increase the land preservation level in terms of open-pit mining

Abstract

Conditions of the planning of open-pit mining objects have been identified, making it possible to reduce the need in the allotted land area during mineral extraction. The research results have allowed proposing a methodological approach to determine economic expediency of the increase in the technogenic land reclamation level under conditions of open-pit mining, being the reserves to expand the technogenic land areas returned to the economic use.